Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:46:48 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: emulation@freebsd.org Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: more VMware quirks/questions - scsi CD-ROM -> emulated ATAPI Message-ID: <14720.37288.299262.35678@whale.home-net>
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[ cc'ing to -scsi because somebody there might have some insight into the behavior I'm seeing from VMware ] OK, I have nailed down some behavior that I saw last night after having success in installing the VMware tools, etc. I am currently using a SCSI CD-ROM (cd0) as the /dev/cdrom device (link to /dev/cd0c) for VMware's emulated ATAPI CD-ROM. Everything works wonderfully if I "power on" the virtual machine with a disc sitting in the CD-ROM. However, if the tray is empty then VMware comes back with a dialog box saying CDROM: Unable to open '/dev/cdrom' Device not configured Error connecting the CDROM device. (another dialog box) Device ide1:0 will start disconnected This smacks of the "troubles" one might have when installing from SCSI CD-ROM if you don't boot with a disc in the drive (sysinstall can't find the drive when you choose CDROM as the media type if there wasn't a disc in the drive during boot). Is this something we can work-around in our vmmon module or is this an unavoidable CAM thing? Do other people using SCSI CD-ROM's notice the same thing? For now, I will happily insert any ol' disc into the machine as I power up the VM, but just wondering how this can be fixed in software ultimately (or if it's just a "VMware thing + scsi" thing and we're stuck with it). Thanks, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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